Assessing for Disabilities
Types of Assessments
Basic Statistics
Pot Pourri
Writing IEP Goals
100
What is 60 days
After parental consent, initial eval must be completed
100
Assessment carried out during the instructional process for improving teaching or learning
What is formative assessment
100
Mode, mean, and median
What are measures of central tendency
100
This provides a learner with clear cues, hints, and suggestions on how to improve learning
What is feedback
100
The mechanism that drives instructional support(s) for students who have disabilities
What is an Individual Education Program (IEP)
200
The systematic process of collecting data to make educational decisions
What is an assessment
200
Assessments that include chapter tests and/or final exams
What is summative assessment
200
The most frequently occuring score
What is Mode
200
The extent to which an instrument is measuring what it purports to measure
What is Validity
200
The environment that is most like that of a student's nondisabled peers where the student can receive an appropriate education
What is the least restrictive environment (LRE)
300
The pre-referral team that traverses through the special education assessment cycle
What is a multidisciplinary team/ student support team
300
Selected samples of student work that demonstrate progress made over a period of time
What is portfolio assessment
300
The middle score in a distribution of scores
What is the Median
300
Consistency, accuracy, and repeatibility of a test
What is reliability
300
The group that consists of a special education teacher, a general education teacher, a psychologist, and a principal/asst-principal
Who are the IEP team
400
Articulation, receptive, and expressive language
What is a speech/ language impairment
400
This assesses a student's mastery against specific standards
What is a criterion referenced assessment
400
When scores are clustered on either end of the distribution
What is skewed
400
Assessment used to determine how a student is performing using actual content of the curriculum
What is a curriculum-based assessment
400
An IEP that is generated every 3rd year and is usually accompanied with additional testing administered by the psychologist
What is a tri-annual IEP
500
To identify strengths, areas of need, and to determine elgibility for individualized education planning
What is the purpose for assessment
500
Scores from these assessments are compared against a norm group of a larger population
What is a norm-referenced assessments
500
Relative position of a student's score on a test in comparison with scores obtained by other students
What is percentile ranks
500
A three-tiered model of support that was first used in behavior interventions
What is Response to Intervention (RTI)
500
Document that acknowledges that a student with a disability is preparing for postsecondary activity (e.g., career, college, living, etc.)
What is a transition plan
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